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Podcast: Can an Algorithm Replace a Teacher’s Instinct? | EdSurge

From www.edsurge.com - July 7, 12:47 PM
Two teachers learn what happens when they trust a tool to solve a problem.
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Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education?

Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
February 11, 5:29 PM

Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence-Based Approaches to Pedagogy, Ethics, and Beyond

 

Edited by Joseph Rene Corbeil & Maria Elena Corbeil (2025)

 

🏆 Winner of the 2025 Systems Thinking & Change Division Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology!

 

If you are designing a course that addresses generative AI in education, this award-winning volume provides a research-driven, classroom-ready foundation. Rather than offering hype or fear, this book helps educators:

  • Ground AI integration in learning theory and research
  • Address academic integrity with thoughtful, practical strategies
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  • Explore ethics, bias, privacy, and institutional responsibility
  • Leverage AI to enhance critical thinking and digital literacy


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Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education? Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI. Winner of the 2025 Systems Thinking & Change Division Outstanding Book Award. Request your inspection copy today

Request your inspection copy today.

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Award-winning "Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI" offers research-based, practical guidance for educators seeking to thoughtfully integrate generative AI into their courses—request an inspection copy: https://www.routledge.com/textbooks/evaluation/9781032688602.
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Artificial Intelligence is playing a significant role in both cyber defense and cybercrime. Security professionals are leveraging AI-powered tools to detect threats faster, analyze suspicious activities, and automate incident responses. At the same time, cybercriminals are using AI to create more convincing scams and sophisticated attacks, creating an ongoing battle between attackers and defenders.read more..https://pressearn.it.com/blog/?s=Technology+
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Young US adults are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs

Young US adults are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.pewresearch.org - August 18, 11:58 AM
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.
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"Across age groups, about half or more say they’re more concerned than excited about AI. Excitement, in turn, has dropped off since 2021 among all age groups."

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PowerPoint’s Speaker Coach Is A Harsh But Mostly Helpful AI Mentor

PowerPoint’s Speaker Coach Is A Harsh But Mostly Helpful AI Mentor | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.techlearning.com - Today, 5:00 AM
Speaker Coach, the AI-powered presentation tool built into PowerPoint, is not fun to use, but it could help me get better at giving presentations.
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"As you speak, the program gives on-screen guidance by default, though you can turn off this feature. It will provide feedback such as telling you to speak more slowly, avoiding “ahs” and “ehs,” and offering encouragement that you are doing great and should keep it up."

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What Blade Runner got right about AI

From uxdesign.cc - Today, 11:21 AM

"Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner turned out to be a design document. Most people remember it for the rain, the neon, and whether Deckard is a replicant.

 

The reality: the film kept getting the texture of artificial intelligence right while everyone around it argued about flying cars and Pan Am.

 

It imagined machines that remember, machines that judge, and the people who have to tell them apart, all lifted from Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

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"A 1982 film and its 2017 sequel predicted the design problems we are still failing to solve, from synthetic memory to the interfaces we now argue about daily."

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The problem with an AI tutor: Students don’t want to use it

The problem with an AI tutor: Students don’t want to use it | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.chalkbeat.org - August 25, 6:24 AM
The latest AI tutoring research points to a stubbornly human problem — getting students to engage. “Access was nearly universal but engagement was thin,” a new study found.
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"[R]esearch on AI in education is nascent, but an early theme is that students often won’t use it for learning. 'When given AI tutors, many students do not engage'”

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Beyond spotting deepfakes: Teaching multilingual learners to interrogate AI

Beyond spotting deepfakes: Teaching multilingual learners to interrogate AI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.eschoolnews.com - August 25, 6:00 AM
Helping multilingual students spot deepfakes in the age of AI will help them better assess authenticity of online content.
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"[I]f we use visuals as a bridge to understanding, we must also teach students to question their source, context, and credibility."

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Researcher-in-the-loop: A model for AI-enabled UX research where the researcher governs.

From uxdesign.cc - August 25, 8:34 AM

"For a few years now, the UX research field has been arguing with itself over whether AI is coming to replace us or whether AI can’t do “real” research and we need to hold the line. Is AI coming to replace us? Should we use AI to automate research? Can AI conduct “real” research? Research is about asking questions. However, we can ask better questions about AI in UXR."

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"We don’t need to ask whether AI can do research. It’s already doing it, and it’s doing it in your org right now, whether or not a researcher is involved. So the real question is: when everyone can do research, who keeps it honest?"

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Teacher Optimism on AI Is Dropping. The Reason Isn’t the Technology.

Teacher Optimism on AI Is Dropping. The Reason Isn’t the Technology. | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From edtechinsiders.substack.com - August 6, 8:34 AM
What research reveals about the absence of training, policy, and institutional support
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"Teachers with higher self-efficacy perceived more benefits, fewer concerns, and reported more trust."

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Department of Education Issues Long-Awaited Edtech Guidance for States and Districts

Department of Education Issues Long-Awaited Edtech Guidance for States and Districts | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.edsurge.com - August 21, 2:14 PM
The letter emphasizes outcomes and evidence but stops short of issuing federal regulations.
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"Responsible design is the floor. Not only do we need to know if the tool works, but if it works; why does it work, for whom does it work, and under what conditions.”

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Would You Trust AI for Ethical Advice?

Would You Trust AI for Ethical Advice? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu - June 23, 1:24 PM
A new Wharton study shows that people feel more positively about ethical advice from AI once they see how good it can be.
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"Most people would not prefer to take ethical advice from a computer, but a new Wharton study shows how attitudes change when users see how good AI guidance can be."

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College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From futurism.com - June 10, 8:44 AM
Plunging assessment scores show reading skills are vanishing, with an instructor complaining his pupils can't understand basic assignments.
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“There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.”

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The Next Competitive Advantage in Online Education

The Next Competitive Advantage in Online Education | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From 2u.com - August 11, 9:50 AM
Adam Fein, Vice President of Academic Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at 2U, explores how online education is becoming central to university strategy and why institutional alignment and the right partnerships matter.
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"As online learning takes on a bigger role, the success of an institution’s portfolio depends on more than the strength of any individual program. It requires a perspective shift, in which online strategy becomes inseparable from institutional strategy."

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AI is lying to us, and nobody seems to care

From uxdesign.cc - August 20, 9:45 AM

"We built it to sound sure of everything. The best thing it can learn to say is “I’m not sure.”

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"[W]hat you actually get from Claude or ChatGPT is a play-by-play that tells you nothing. “Analyzing your request” or “Working on it.” Cool. You never see the one thing that matters, how it got from your question to its answer."

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Teaching With Humanity: What Students Need Most in the AI Era

Teaching With Humanity: What Students Need Most in the AI Era | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.facultyfocus.com - Today, 12:00 AM
What does teaching without AI look like? Explore human-centered strategies that make learning more personal, meaningful, and lasting in the AI era.
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"Teaching without AI can’t, for example, mean ignoring these developments and pretending like we live in the past. No, we all have a responsibility to know what AI is and what it might be doing to the world—and, in particular, to our students."

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How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.pewresearch.org - August 20, 11:55 AM
In a random sample of 10,000 webpages collected in July 2026, one-in-ten show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI.
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"In the July 2026 snapshot, signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of pages published after ChatGPT was released."

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AI agents are sitting through students’ online courses, and colleges are struggling to stop them

From www.digitaltrends.com - Today, 11:23 AM

"AI cheating has already gone from asking a chatbot to write an essay to using tools that can make that AI-written work look human. We’ve previously talked about AI tools designed to help students cheat and the growing problem of AI detectors struggling to keep up, as well as how commonly students are already using AI for homework. Now the technology isn’t merely helping students do the work. In some cases, it can effectively be the student."

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"The technology has moved from helping with homework to effectively impersonating students inside virtual classrooms."

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Blind Suffolk man says smart glasses have been game-changer

Blind Suffolk man says smart glasses have been game-changer | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.bbc.com - August 19, 8:17 AM
Kevin Ramsey says the glasses can read menus to him and help him track walking routes.
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"UK courts recently banned people using the glasses inside their buildings and a number of restaurants and theatres have done the same. Ramsey is concerned more places might ban them which could negatively affect visually impaired people using them."

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Cognitive Offloading in the Classroom: How External Notes Compromise Internal Learning

Cognitive Offloading in the Classroom: How External Notes Compromise Internal Learning | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From ammaramerhbi.substack.com - August 21, 6:34 PM
Most teachers recognize the scene: a room full of students copying down slides word-for-word or neatly filing away handouts under the assumption that having the record means having the knowledge.
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"When participants recorded words knowing they could look at their notes during a recall test, their initial encoding became exceptionally superficial...Knowing a backup existed did not merely reduce study effort; it actively undercut retention."

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Screen Time Is the Wrong Unit of Measurement

Screen Time Is the Wrong Unit of Measurement | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.techlearning.com - August 25, 5:00 AM
Before restricting screens, schools should ask what students will lose, including access to books, translation, accessibility features, and more.
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"At a time when many students are struggling to read, schools should increase access to high-interest books, not limit ways students find and read them...Digital books do not replace paper, but expand access, choice, privacy, and independence."

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AI and education: guidance for policy-makers

From unesdoc.unesco.org - August 25, 8:32 AM

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in education today, innovate teaching and learning practices, and ultimately accelerate the progress towards SDG 4. However, these rapid technological developments inevitably bring multiple risks and challenges, which have so far outpaced policy debates and regulatory frameworks."

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"This publication offers guidance for policy-makers on how best to leverage the opportunities and address the risks, presented by the growing connection between AI and education."

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Homework Helper or AI Tutor? The Difference Determines What Students Learn.

Homework Helper or AI Tutor? The Difference Determines What Students Learn. | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From edtechinsiders.substack.com - August 21, 8:34 AM
As the catch-all term “AI tutoring” captures the public imagination, it’s time to define and measure what actually meets the bar for a “tutor.”
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"Homework helpers (and off-the-shelf LLMs) are designed to resolve the task a user brings in real time: to get to an answer. Great tutors don’t provide answers."

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Best AI-Powered Tutors for Education

Best AI-Powered Tutors for Education | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.techlearning.com - August 21, 4:47 AM
The best AI-powered tutors guide students towards genuine learning
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"While students may welcome the ability to quickly get answers without much work, educators and education leaders have been deeply uneasy about the potential effects of AI on learning."

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What The Matrix got wrong about AI (so far)

From uxdesign.cc - August 21, 2:08 PM

"The film feared a superintelligence that would rise up and rule us, but the generative AI we built asks for our trust instead — and mostly gets it."

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"The Matrix feared a machine that would wake up, decide we were the problem, and seize control. Generative AI did the opposite. It asked politely — a summarizer here, a copilot there — and we said yes, one convenient task at a time. No war, no red pill. The takeover, if that is the word, came by invitation."

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The Case Against the Classroom Cellphone Crackdown

The Case Against the Classroom Cellphone Crackdown | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From www.edsurge.com - August 20, 9:54 AM
Instead of banning the technology, schools have a unique opportunity to promote digital citizenship and authentic student engagement.
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"It has become a concerning cycle in education: When any new technology becomes prevalent in our kids’ world — from TV to video games, and computers to the rise of AI — policymakers’ first instinct is to ban the technology rather than attempt to understand it."

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What Canvas learned from its massive cyberattack

What Canvas learned from its massive cyberattack | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
From universitybusiness.com - August 7, 8:16 AM
The cyberattack that rocked Canvas offered a lesson for higher ed: Institutions must move faster to stay ahead of emerging threats.
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"Experts at Instructure recognized earlier this year that conventional security practices were being challenged by AI-powered threats,...The company’s renewed defenses remained unfinished when the attack occurred."

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What nobody tells you about AI ethics

From uxdesign.cc - August 20, 9:43 AM

"Why making the human behind the machine visible changes what we call morally right, and what that does to the alignment of AI with human values"

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"Who do we blame when an AI makes a wrong prediction or a harmful decision? The obvious suspects are the machine itself, or the company that built it. Recent experimental research evidence points in a new direction."

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